Driving through rural northeast Oklahoma, you would never know that it’s the site of a town that has suffered tragedy after tragedy. This is the sad tale of Picher, Oklahoma, and a look at what remains today.

I recently took a trip to the extreme southeast corner of Colorado to the Comanche Grasslands to hike a canyon that is loaded with history. This canyon has evidence of having been inhabited for thousands of years by the Archaic Indians. More recently, in the late 1800s, the canyon was home to several Spanish homesites and even a Catholic mission and cemetery. Hiking even deeper into the canyon, one will come across the largest dinosaur tracksite in North America.

This is the story of my hike along the Purgatory River Valley in Picketwire Canyon, Colorado.

Join me as I explore the remains of an abandoned power plant located deep in Appalachia, somewhere in the hills of West Virginia.

In November 2022, my girlfriend and I were driving through the Nevada desert on our way from Las Vegas to the Alabama Hills. Along the way, we came across Angel's Ladies - a defunct brothel with the deteriorating remains of a wrecked aircraft sitting out front. The story of this location turns out to be an interesting one.

Mullens, West Virginia is the epitome of America’s stereotypical coal town. The once bustling metropolis is a shell of its former self, with many of the buildings sitting abandoned, decaying further with each passing moment. Walking the streets of this shell of a city is an almost surreal experience, but things haven’t always been this way in Mullens. Let’s take a step back and see how we got here.